Abstract:
Every current technology is having beneficial positive as well as undesirable deleterious
effects. This research was carried out to emphasize the health impacts on human beings due
to electromagnetic radiation radiated from telecommunication base stations located in six
places of Ampara, Eastern Town of Sri Lanka. For this research, areas, where people stay
close to the telecommunication base stations, have been divided equally into six different
zones. Bandwidth measurements and questionnaires used to gather information from the
people of the different zones revealed that people who lived in the nearest zones were liable
to have some potential health impacts, such as sleeping disorder, headache, depression, loss
of memory, skin problem, visual and hearing disruption, cardiovascular issue [1].
Furthermore, from the feedback of the questionnaire, it was identified that the people had
some form of physical or mental illness after the installation of the telecommunication base
stations. It is concluded that the levels of symptoms of health impacts depended on distance
between the people's residence from the telecommunication base stations and the length of the
period of their stay in the residences
